Art & Leisure

BOSTON (AP):Universities across the United States (US) say President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as medicine, public health, and engineering...

Upcoming writer Kirk Williams is the winner of a special writing challenge 'Write like Maas Ran'. The competition, organised by thr Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), was in honour of the 104th anniversary of Randolph "Ranny" Williams,...

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."- Malcolm Gladwell, OutliersIn some sports such as football, parents will often take their children out to the backyard to practise from a young age. Even...

The world of work is changing faster and more drastically than perhaps at any other time in recent history. According to research from the World Economic Forum, 35 per cent of the skills necessary to thrive in a job today will be different five...

Book: Con Job: How Democrats Gave us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division Author: Crystal Wright Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Conservative writer and talk show host Crystal Wright launches a withering indictment on the US...

Jerusalem:An Israel-based start-up is helping blind and visually impaired people to read. Established in 2015, Jerusalem-based OrCam, has developed a device, which they call MyEye.MyEye is a portable, artificial vision device that responds to simple...

HAVANA (AP):An American team of academics is racing to preserve millions of Cuban historical documents before they are lost to the elements and poor storage conditions.Many of the documents shed light on the slave trade, an integral part of Cuba's...

The year 1907 is buried somewhere in history - not anywhere in the living memory of most people - but on January 14 of that year, on a sunny Monday afternoon, the Earth shook, and within the space of 20 seconds...

Emotions to InkCrushed papers, watery eyesEvery line begins with a tearHurt, pain, sadness, demiseAll words describing her deepest fearFutile thoughts of green pasturesAs she tries to put her emotions to inkBut the sorrows of life masks the faint...

"I have always wanted to become a teacher," says George Lewis. "My father also told me I was always reading a book and teaching reading."And so the journey began 25 years ago, taking Lewis along various paths and honing his experience and expertise...